The Long Arm of Coincidence

Everything Is Stories

History, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.8 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Jon Gerwitz’s son was born on April 20th, 1988 and kidnapped four hours later. In this story, Gerwitz describes the peculiar circumstances of the disappearance which includes his hometown, a lifelong friend, and the many corridors of Interstate 40. Gerwitz also explains his emotions at the time which ranged from paranoia to forgiveness. 20 years later, he wonders if the whole experience was a coincidence or miracle. Produced by Garrett Crowe, Mike Martinez, and Tyler Wray. Music by J.S. Aurelius. Transcripts are available at everythingisstories.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	The truth of matter was, stories were everything and everything was stories.
0:06.0	Everybody told stories.
0:08.0	It was a way of seeing who they were in the world.
0:11.0	It was their understanding of themselves.
0:14.0	The story. Doug Newton called the hospital,
0:29.7	and he interviewed witnesses over the telephone.
0:38.6	By now it's almost dark,
0:41.6	so that had to be around 6 o'clock in the evening.
0:51.3	Prescott Police went on about their business.
0:57.2	And in the meantime, we were just left not knowing what to do or what was going on.
1:18.0	And then about 11 o'clock that evening,
1:19.9	10 or 11 o'clock that evening,
1:33.3	they came in and they gave my wife a sleeping pill and they told me to ask me if I want one. They said no.
1:34.3	And they came in about 1 o'clock in the morning and said we think we've located your son
1:49.6	shock you're just numb.
2:03.6	It's like a sudden death of a relative.
2:07.6	You just go into shock.
2:10.6	And you stay that way for a long time.
2:16.6	My name is John Gerwitz. I'm in Holbrook, Arizona, and in 1988, April 20th, my son was kidnapped from a hospital in Prescott, Arizona, and he was four hours old.
2:30.3	My first child I was working
2:46.4	I was working running
2:47.7	ranches
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Everything Is Stories, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Everything Is Stories and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.